Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative's EECCA Working Group and the OECD EAP Task Force’s Group of Senior Officials for Water Sector Reform in EECCA

The Joint Meeting was held on the 24-25th of November 2009, in Bucharest, Romania with the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development hosting the event.

The objective of this 5th joint meeting was to discuss major advances made in the implementation of the EU Water Initiative and EAP Task Force work programmes, since the previous network meetings in Bucharest and Ashgabat; to adopt the work programme of the group for 2010 and possible future work in 2011, as well as to have more substantive discussions on a number of topics of common interest.

This meeting was held back to back with two other events, - a seminar on water and climate change (p.m. on 25 November) and a seminar on integrated nitrate pollution control (26 - 27 November jointly with the World Bank). The aim of these two seminars were to show the impact of climate change on the achievement of the EECCA objectives and to present an example on how different protection activities could contribute to integrated water resources management.

This Joint Meeting meeting has been organised by the Ministry of Environment of Romania together with the European Commission, the OECD/EAP Task Force, UNECE, WHO/EURO, GEF and the World Bank and UNECE.